[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 144 (Monday, October 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10565]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     THE FAILED REPUBLICAN CONGRESS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, it is absurd. The Republican-controlled 
Congress has had this session of the Congress shut down for the last 2 
years. They have failed. For 10 months the leadership has stalled, 
dallied and wasted the American people's time and money.
  Republicans are running scared out of town this week, and they will 
leave without having delivered anything for the people of this country: 
no small class size for grades 1 through 3, no classrooms connected to 
the Internet, no guaranteed access to emergency rooms, the right to 
choose your own doctor, no guaranteed access to specialty care, and no 
accountability for HMOs for making medical decisions that they are 
making today, and nothing by way of reform to help Social Security 
except to raid the Social Security Trust Fund.
  They have done a hit and run on the American people. They killed 
tobacco reform on behalf of special interests, and they killed campaign 
finance reform for special interests. This Congress, this Republican-
controlled Congress, has failed, and the American public knows it.

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